The Scarlet Pimpernel is back!! But haven’t managed to catch him (on camera) yet.
Some of the clouds about tried to look threatening but the weather gods had obviously shot their bolt overnight (or at least early this morning) and the freshly mown rough gave the course a benign face so there was no excuse for not scoring well. Unfortunately, not all of us took advantage of what the day had to offer and only three people managed to play under their handicap. The two front runners were Mehm and Noodles and there had to be a count-back to decide the winner of the Monthly Medal. Whilst Mehmet was consistent between nines, Noods had the better of the back and ended up winning the countback by a comfortable margin. Dennis also came in under the course par and will feel a light stroke of the handicappers whip rather than the instrument of torture that the brothers used at the school he attended.
Sixty-nine proved to be very popular with the third place getters while Oliver and Targe went solo to round out fourth and fifth.
Trevor managed to squeeze one onto the green inside Targe on the 12th to pick up a ball while the ProPin on the 15th went begging. What? Are we letting it build up so that Craig can come back to clean it up again? Thirteen birdies today but nothing of the larger bird of prey.
Noodles’ win today caught up a fair bit of the leeway that he had given to Gordon during his mini form slump in the Club Championship table. At this stage it would appear to be a two horse race unless Mehm can arrange to nobble both of them and win the next two weeks. The Seniors Championship is All Over Red Rover as even if Gordon doesn’t score in the next two weeks, nobody can over-take him.
Firstly, an apology to David over last weeks par about the Bendigo trip. I misread the note I was given and said he hit a cart and a tree with a ball. This was not true – he hit a tree with a cart.
Speaking of hitting trees, Ben hit a screamer off the 6th – just a little off line – hit a tree and the ball came back to a bit in front of the lady’s tee. His second shot hit another (same?) tree and came back even closer to the lady’s tee. If it had had passed the lady’s tee, would that have counted for a round? And speaking of lady’s tees, there was a suggestion that some people had quite a bit of difficulty in getting past said tee on one of the holes at Bendigo. Gordon was one of the names mentioned.
There was another record set on the course today – well it’s hard to imagine that it is not a record. No names, no pack-drill but his surname is the same as a well-known AFL ex-player/coach and rhymes with ‘right’ managed to put five (yes five!) balls into the hazard on the 17th to rack up a seventeen. One of the draw-backs of playing stroke events, hey Andrew.
The other matter of importance is the fact that, theoretically, nominations for Committee positions were supposed to be handed in by today. However, due to a number of circumstances, the deadline has been extended to next Saturday. All positions are up for grabs and there are a few people who might like a rest from roles that they have filled for a number of years. None of the jobs are particularly onerous and you could help to run the Club as smoothly as you would like it to. I am guessing a bit, but I imagine that nominations forms are available from Secretary David and as a last resort will be available on the day. The AGM will be on Break-up Day 15th December.
Results for Saturday, 10 November 2012
1st Mehmet Akdag(66) 1st S Butterfield(66) 2nd Dennis Tiernan(67) 3rd Trevor Jackson(69) 3rd Damien Lee(69) 3rd Brendon Mitchell(69) 3rd Andrew Petricola(69) 4th Oliver Gross(71) 5th Targe Mifsud(74)